http://leida.buddyslim.com Diet, weight loss, fitness blog from BuddysSlim.com Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:53:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Thanks to a lot of advice I've got, the books, trial and error, I managed to corner bread-baking for my high-altitude location. I discovered that: - home-made bread is a little bit denser than store-bought, so it can be sliced much thinner reducing calories per slice -there are really very few ingredients needed ... http://leida.buddyslim.com/2009/11/06/whats-your-secret-bread-contd/ It's the only one I have! It nurtured, grew and birthed to my daughter. We have a long history together and unlikely to part for a while yet. No matter how much abuse I through its way, it rallies when I call for it. It's designed to do all sorts of things, the ones I tried ... http://leida.buddyslim.com/2009/10/28/i-love-my-body-because/ Here is my Halloween without a Nightmare the Morning After:   1. I will start my Halloween with a workout with or without my wee one. 2. Candies might be a staple, but so is the nutrition-packed, anti-oxidants rich pumpkin! I will wash & toast pumpking seeds for healthy snacking, and one of our ... http://leida.buddyslim.com/2009/10/26/halloween-plan-to-avoid-the-haunting-of-the-scale/ I decided to learn to make my own bread simply because it sounds like fun, and the smell is awsome. The problem is, that when I calculated my recipe (which tastes great!) even when it's made with Splenda, and most butter is subbed to canola, a slice (and a pretty ... http://leida.buddyslim.com/2009/10/16/whats-your-secret-bread/ I had an absolutely marvelous weekend. It was the Canadian Thanksgiving, and I was taking Group Fitness Foundamentals Course with Choreography component in my bid to become a fotness instructor one day. We worked out a lot, and got to learn a lot of stuff, like fitness music beats per ... http://leida.buddyslim.com/2009/10/13/snow-pumpkins-back-and-aerobics/ My daughter brought a craft project back home yesterday. I looked at the spelling of her name on it and had a good laugh. Someone spelled her name as Kierra. We spell it Kira. Four letters. The simplicity itself. The morale: the humankind loves to overcomplicate things. But it's not necessary, particulary ... http://leida.buddyslim.com/2009/10/01/four-letters-six-letters/ I saw these photos (link below), and I was not only stunned by their beauty, there was also some sort of a thought nagging at me when I looked at it. I finally managed to formulate it, and it may have come out as a platitude, but here it is:  A ... http://leida.buddyslim.com/2009/09/25/a-grain-of-sand-a-birthday-thought/ Our new neighbors have teenage sons, and a hoop in the driveway of our new house. Every time I drive around it, my heart goes pounding! I want to start shooting that hoop. Gods, I haven't play basketball sine I was a teen. That's what, 20 years? More? Scary. But I ... http://leida.buddyslim.com/2009/09/21/now-i-want-to-play-basketball-and/ ... but did I pick a wrong day to have low-energy, slumlpy look and a bloat. A crisp good-looking male just made me all the more aware of how pathetic I appear today. The morale: one should never let herself to have a bad hair day in public! http://leida.buddyslim.com/2009/09/14/i-know-i-am-not-eligible-any-more/ So, on Saturday, I did my first serious run, exploring the trails in my new neighborhood. I went a wee bit too late to see the sunrise over the hills, so next weekend I will try it 15 or so min earlier. It's not as spectacular as my old places, where ... http://leida.buddyslim.com/2009/09/08/first-run-in-the-new-neighborhood/